Sum up your belief in God in one quote.

Ok, so i shouldn't quote Nietzsche? I am a fan of his, i am a grad philosophy student, and yes he has a point when it comes to logic being man made,
much like the ideal of God being man made, God was made because it fitted with the logic of the makers of God at that time. They couldn't explaine
certain things, so they assume, by their logic, that a supreme being/divine being created it, or is responsible for it, and so on.

Just remember where logic has got us in the past. Sacrifices, for an example, were done because the people believed, by their logic, that their God
was unhappy with them, and to solve this, by their logic, slaughtering a peasent would please the God, thus creating rainfall.

Logic is man made, Logic is dangerous and logic should always be questioned. After all, it's only logical.

Let me remind you what Nietzsche said about logic (and why he had zero):

Friedrich Nietzsche provides a strong example of the rejection of the usual basis of logic: his radical rejection of idealisation led him to
reject truth as a "mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms—in short ... metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power;
coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins". His rejection of truth did not lead him to reject the idea of
either inference or logic completely, but rather suggested that "logic [came] into existence in man's head [out] of illogic, whose realm originally
must have been immense. Innumerable beings who made inferences in a way different from ours perished".Thus there is the idea that logical inference
has a use as a tool for human survival, but that its existence does not support the existence of truth, nor does it have a reality beyond the
instrumental: "Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world".

This position held by Nietzsche however, has come under extreme scrutiny for several reasons. He fails to demonstrate the validity of his claims and
merely asserts them rhetorically. Furthermore, his position has been claimed to be self-refuting by philosophers, such as Jürgen Habermas, who have
accused Nietszche of not even having a coherent perspective let alone a theory of knowledge. George Lukacs in his book The Destruction of Reason has
asserted that "Were we to study Nietzsche’s statements in this area from a logico-philosophical angle, we would be confronted by a dizzy chaos of
the most lurid assertions, arbitrary and violently incompatible". Extreme skepticism such as that displayed by Nietzsche has not been met with much
seriousness by analytic philosophers in the 20th century. Bertrand Russell famously referred to Nietzsche's claims as "empty words" in his
book A History of Western Philosophy.

"Empty words" indeed, from a man who spent his last days screaming out verses in the King James Bible, when he chose to make a noise at all.
Referring to Nietzsche as some sort of icon of logic and reason is like referring to Adolf Hitler as some kind of icon for Zionism and champion of the
Jews as God's chosen people.

"Furthermore, his position has been claimed to be self-refuting by philosophers, such as Jürgen Habermas, who have accused Nietszche of not even
having a coherent perspective let alone a theory of knowledge. "

Another example of Nietzsche's absurd ideas and arguments is he used human language to argue and express his opinions, a mad-made
construct, yet he mocked the idea of "logic and rational thought" as being a man-made construct therefore irrelevant to form his
opinions logically.

"See I don't worry about the little things: bees, trees, whales, snails. I think we're part of a greater wisdom than we will ever understand. A
higher order. Call it what you want. Know what I call it? The Big Electron." The Big Electron...whoooa. Whoooa. Whoooa. It doesn't punish; it
doesn't reward; it doesn't judge at all. It just is. And so are we. For a little while." - George Carlin

"Why do people finally acknowledge GOD in anger shaking their fist at him when their loved one lays dying in their arms, or why do people finally cry
out and acknowledge GOD in fear when they're hanging on for dear life by the tips of their fingers?" Why acknowledge GOD then? Choose this day whom
you will serve.

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